Roads on Monday were turned into ice skating rinks for residents as a massive ice storm hit Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky. Residents took to the streets with sleds and skates as some areas experienced upwards of 0.75 inches of ice.
Hardest hit will be stretches of Interstates 35 and 20 in Texas, as well as the Interstate 10 corridor in the Permian Basin and Big Bend. Of particular concern is the span from Dallas to Texarkana, Tex., to Little Rock to Memphis on Interstates 30 and 40, where some of the heaviest freezing rain buildup is expected in the day ahead.
The precipitation is far removed from a surface cold front, which lurks hundreds of miles to the southeast over the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, the patches of freezing rain are straddling a temperature gradient, or boundary, about a mile up in the atmosphere. Another pulse of moisture will begin to take shape over Texas Hill Country by Wednesday evening, expanding northeast overnight and ending west to east during the late morning into early afternoon Thursday. It will once again trek along the same areas that have seen days of freezing rain. This time, however, there are signs that Nashville could awaken to a glaze that may interrupt the Thursday morning commute.
Minimize or eliminate travel, particularly in areas forecast to deal with a quarter-inch or more of glaze. Chain-reaction crashes are very common during freezing rain events .
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